Galveston Continues to Have Fun with ArtWalk!

On January 14, 2017, Galveston Texas came alive with artists and art lovers alike, walking the streets, enjoying live music, sipping wine and perusing galleries, antique shops, pubs, clothing stores, restaurants, and other various walls along the route.

Galveston has a fabulous arts districts that continues to grow better every year. In the Art Lofts on Market Street and 23^rd, there is a new space called The Proletariat Gallery & Public House at street level, which is a great jumping off point when participating in art walk. I found a fabulous exhibition of artwork by local tattoo artists including renown artists Catfish, Chuck Jones, and more.

Moving down 23^rd St. I stopped in Affair D'Art, a local artists co-op gallery. Many great names are showing there, Christian Perkins, Jim Adams, Marilyn Lowry, Rona Lesser, Maria Hart, just to name a few.

I then crossed 23^rd to visit a new place called Art from the Heart featuring artwork by Kelly Halbach, Shirley Scarpetta, David Mortensen, Rose West and more as well as live music and refreshments. This is a lovely spot with nice rooms for each artist to showcase their works.

Then I decided to have a stroll down Postoffice Street where I popped into Ray Heard Gallery where I found a very interesting artist, new to the area and directly from Hawaii, Ricky Pa, and his wood batik creations.

I wondered into Design Works and met the owners of the gallery Elisabeth and Stephen Lanier. This is a very interesting upscale design gallery where they feature top artists from around the USA.

After walking down the street a little more, sticking my nose into several other spaces, like the Galveston Art Guild gallery, it was already going on ten and time to drive back to Houston. ArtWalk in Galveston is still a perfectly romantic evening, fog rolling in off the water, sea breeze, and heightened senses.

The next Galveston ArtWalk is scheduled for March 4, 2017 beginning at 6pm.